The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor filed 8,126 lawsuits in the 12-month period ending March 31, 2014 for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This represented a 5% increase over 2013.
The FLSA applies to all employers regardless of their number of employees.
Typically these lawsuits were due to employers:
- Wrongfully classifying employees as exempt (meaning not required to be paid)
- Failing to pay overtime to non-exempt (meaning entitled to overtime) employees at time & ½ for all hours worked in excess of forty hours in a week
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- Making back wage payments going back 2 years
- Liquated damages equal to the amount of back
If a willful violation, an employer is subject to:
- 3 years of double back payments to employees
- Criminal prosecution with a $10,000 per employee penalty for the 1st offense and imprisonment for the 2nd offense
- Punitive damages
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